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Grace and the will according to Augustine / by Lenka Karfikova.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Karfíková, Lenka.
- Series:
- Supplements to Vigiliae Christianae ; v. 115.
- Supplements to Vigiliae Christianae, 0920-623X ; v. 115
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Grace (Theology)--Biblical teaching.
- Grace (Theology).
- Grace (Theology)--History of doctrines--Early church, ca. 30-600.
- Free will and determinism--Religious aspects--Christianity--History of doctrines--Early church, ca. 30-600.
- Free will and determinism.
- Augustine, of Hippo, Saint, 354-430.
- Augustine.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (442 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2012.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- The doctrine on grace, one of the most discussed themes in his later years, was regarded by Augustine as the very core of Christianity. This book traces the gradual crystallisation of this teaching, including its unacceptable consequences (such as double predestination, inherited guilt which deserves eternal punishment, and its transmission through libidinous procreation). How did the reader of Cicero and “the books of the Platonists” reach the ideas that appear in his polemic against Julian (and which remind one of Freud rather than the Stoics or Plotinus)? That is the point of departure of this book. It surely cannot be expected that there is a definite answer to the question; rather, the aim is to follow and understand the development.
- Contents:
- Front Matter
- Introduction
- Part One: Introduction
- The Universe of Will (Works before Augustine’s Ordination as Presbyter: 387–390)
- Pauline Themes (the Period of the Presbyterate: 391–395)
- Part Two: Introduction
- Answer to Simplicianus
- Confessions
- Other Works from the Beginning of the Episcopate
- Anti-Donatist Works
- Part Three: Introduction
- Polemic against Pelagius and Caelestius (411–418)
- Other Works from the Period 411–430
- Polemic against Julian of Eclanum (419–430)
- Conclusion
- Augustine as a Philosopher of the Will
- Bibliography
- Indices.
- Notes:
- Part Three: Introduction.
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- ISBN:
- 1-280-49589-8
- 9786613591128
- 90-04-22921-3
- OCLC:
- 794328507
- Publisher Number:
- 10.1163/9789004229211 DOI
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